{"id":217,"date":"2025-03-21T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-03-21T03:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:32:47","slug":"tasmania-march-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/tasmania-march-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania 19 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cradle Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Started off with a shuttle ride to the Ranger’s Station\/Interpretive Centre, where we walked to Pencil Pine Falls and thought we were following the path to Knyvet Falls but due to a navigation error ended up on the Enchanted Walk! Oops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caught the shuttle down to Dove Lake and set off around the lake. It is a 6km walk. Luckily some didn’t know how far that was or we would never have convinced her to start! It was a beautiful walk but about a third of the way around we had to get out the lolly snakes to keep up enthusiasm levels. Absolutely stunning day, sunshine for the first time in days. The locals thought it was a scorcher as forecast for 17 degrees! We made it around in just over two hours as we had a very special treat booked for the afternoon and no time to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The water is brown (stained by tannins but crystal clear)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Devils@Cradle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We booked in for a keeper’s tour and a joey encounter. The keeper was very passionate about the Tasmanian devils and the challenges facing them in the wild, particularly Devil Facial Tumour Disease which is a type of cancer spread by chewing on prey that has been chewed on by an affected devil or biting each other. It was really interesting. We learned all about devils and spotted tail quolls. These are both carnivorous marsupials which horrified Mia at first, these cute little creatures can kill other animals! We saw lots of devils including Sabrina, a hand raised devil who is due to give birth to her first joeys in the next week, which is super exciting for the keepers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the keeper tour, we had the joey encounter, which was just the four of us and a keeper. We met Chip, a spotted tail quoll, about 8m old. Garry, a bare nosed wombat about 10m old. Luana, a 9m old Tassie devil. Chip and Luana had been hand raised onsite, while Garry was a rescue, who we couldn’t pat as he is being rehabilitated for release in the wild when he is old enough. This keeper answered all our questions and told us all about caring for these babies, it’s not that different to fostering to be honest! Lots of waking during the nights for feeding, love and care and then seeing them move on – in this case they might go to other wildlife breeding centres or back to the wild. Mia was enthralled and has decided that this is what she wants to do when she grows up, study wildlife conservation and work with Tassie devils etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chip – spotted tail quoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garry the wombat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luana – devil joey – likes to suck the keeper’s finger like a dummy, but could actually bite it right off, if it was that way inclined!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a bit of time after just to wander around and look at all the animals. So many devils, quolls and wombats to see, and unlike at the zoo, where animals are often asleep or out of sight, these guys were out and about, often appeared to be putting on a show for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cradle Mountain Started off with a shuttle ride to the Ranger’s Station\/Interpretive Centre, where we walked to Pencil Pine Falls and thought we were following the path to Knyvet Falls but due to a navigation error ended up on the Enchanted Walk! Oops. Caught the shuttle down to Dove Lake and set off around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascada.com.au\/2025Holiday\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}